Analogia: Orthodox Iconography, part 3, Why Were St. Gregory Palamas and the Palamites Accused of Iconoclasm?
St. Gregory Palamas’s adversaries, rather astonishingly, accused him of bein against icons and even of having desecrated one. Was such an attack just a manifestation of ‘all’s fair in love and war’, of ‘throw everything at your enemy and see what sticks’ or did St. Gregory and his supporters, by their statements, opinions, and acts, lend credexce to the allegation of iconomachy?
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St. Gregory Palamas’s adversaries, rather astonishingly, accused him of bein against icons and even of having desecrated one. Iconoclasm is not the first accusation associated with the controversy over Palamism, and yet, St. Gregory and his followers were accused of being anti-icon. Was such an attack just a manifestation of ‘all’s fair in love and war’, of ‘throw everything at your enemy and see what sticks’ or did St. Gregory and his supporters, by their statements, opinions, and acts, lend credexce to the allegation of iconomachy? The present article deals with this question and attempts to answer it.